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Sunday, March 04, 2012

Ed Deform Agenda: Killi Teacher Education

Audit Culture: Snuffing the Life out of Teacher Education

Education RadioIn this week's program Education Radio looks at how audit culture is
being used to undermine and privatize teacher education, decoupling it
from higher education and turning teacher development into technical
training.

Speaking first with Christine Sleeter, Professor Emerita, California
State University, we look at how the assault on teacher education
connects to the larger neo-liberal effort to privatize public spaces. We
then examine the specific measures being used to devalue, de-humanize
and undo the democratic the work of teaching and teaching teachers.

Ann Berlak, of the California State system, helps us understand the
technical rationality behind the current push for a national teacher
performance assessment. Celia Oyler, Associate Professor of Education at
Teachers College Columbia University, brings us into the absurdities of
the National Council on Teacher Quality's grading' of school of
education, and the dangers of privatization found in the new Relay
Graduate School of Education, founded by educational management
companies Achievement First, Uncommon Schools and KIPP. Finally, we
speak with Julie Gorlewski, from State University of New York New Paltz,
as we examine how teacher educators can respond to this assault by
naming it for what it is and making spaces to fight back and claim the
liberatory potential of our work.

2 comments:

PATRIOTS, WE NEED TO BOMBARD THIS "JUDGE" WITH FAXES. S/he just ruled against the farmers who sued Monsanto. If you can believe it, Monsanto has sued farmers for patent infringement - AND WON! - because some of Monsanto's seeds blew into these farmers' fields and mingled with their produce. These farmers filed a counter-lawsuit against Monsanto. BUT TO A "JEW" THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS A CONFLICT OF INTEREST. NOR IS IT CONSIDERED INJUSTICE TO SCREW A GENTILE IN COURT (Read the "jewish" talmud for confirmation of this fact: http://100777.com/protocols.). "Jewish" "judge" NAOMI BUCHWALD didn't hesitate to rule in favor or her "jewish" comrades at Monsanto where BILL GATES IS A MAJOR STOCKHOLDER. Her kind aren't even hiding it anymore; THEY'RE ACTIVELY PILLAGING THE GOYIM (HUMAN CATTLE - GENTILES) MORE EVERYDAY. Let our judeo-commie government know they're being assailed from every direction, and WILL BE until they pack up and move to their "homeland". Read about this case at: http://tinyurl.com/JewsRuleInFavorOfJews. Then fax this throwback Buchwald at (212) 637-2390.

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About Me

Norm Scott worked in the NYC school system from 1967 to 2002, spending 30 of those years teaching elementary school in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn (District 14). He retired in July 2002. He has been active in education reform and in the UFT, often as a critic of union policy, since 1970, working with a variety of groups. In 1996 he began publishing Education Notes, a newsletter for teachers attending the UFT Delegate Assembly. In 2002, he expanded the paper into a 16-page tabloid, printing up to 25,000 copies distributed to teacher mailboxes through Ed Notes supporters. Education Notes started publishing a blog in Aug. 2006. Norm also writes the School Scope education column for The Wave, the Rockaway Beach community newspaper.